"...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with……" — Lionel Shriver

"...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances."

— Lionel Shriver

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66 Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned…
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking…
We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure…
Time itself made all things rare.
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release.…
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained,…
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the…
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to…
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not…
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike…
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was…
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of…

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -… — Richard Armitage
Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when… — Joseph Barbera
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught… — Douglas Bader
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more… — Roseanne Barr

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